Mired in column and book deadlines, and a massive upcoming post about Maker Faire, posts will be a bit sparse for a few days. First:
* Readers will remember the Chronicle tech writer I got in an internet fight with after SXSW, who wrote about vlogging and called it “vcasts” among other great hits (and sent me intimidating emails when I posted about it). Underscoring the need for embedded tech journalists and tech journies that take proper nouns as seriously as people in 2.0 tech, oops he did it again. Check out the story of Dan Fost‘s misreported Zune sales meme on Business 2.0, via Gizmodo.
* Over on Consumerist we see that Lara is not a porn star: it looks like Texas porn company TVX Films (um, who?) snagged a self-portrait of (then) 14-year-old British photographer Lara Jade and used it on a recent porn cover, without consent or permission. The company was so uncooperative, insulting and all-out rude in response to her requests to please stop it already, that she took her need for help to this Flickr photo post and her DeviantArt page. The company’s super-lame and rude responses to her are in the Flickr post and they also responded in the Consumerist comments — but they’re either not web savvy at all, or just don’t care enough to truly clean up their awful mess, which is still in distribution all over the web. Plus, how about a serious apology? Nope. So porn goes on with a few assholes making a shitty reputation for the many. (thanks, Jackson!)
